Sir Saturday Anthem

Book title: Song of the Lord of Saturday Author: Ashraf Al-Garqani Publisher: Al-Mutawaset Number of pages: 64 Book genre: Novel Summary of the book: "The Song of the Lord of Saturday." The book that its owner dedicates, without doubt, to no one, and it is a dedication that is a key, supported by poems arranged in the form of a broken hymn, followed by margins about the names on Saturday, about an innocent signature, there or here, and concluded with a chapter in another hell. The poet writes in the last poem: "Ashraf Al-Garqani. This is not my name. It is another person who invades my small life. And sends me to the exiles you do not see..." And returning to the beginning of the hymn, we are dealing with two lives, racing each other, so that each has its Saturday and its poet who "struggles with words and faces of the magicians." We are in Ashraf Al-Garqani's new collection, a poetic invocation of myth, dismantling it, reconstructing it, but in all that, living the pain of those crushed by the machine of the world since the torments of the first human, and until the last tank blocking the road for schoolchildren. Objects turn into dust at Ashraf's hands, or perhaps he takes them to the yard, to recreate them anew as a poet. The confessions adopting the voice of the speaker are many and harsh, distributed between mirrors of the self, the world with its deficiencies, illusions, and disasters waiting for our tormented souls at every turn. This prompted, with a striking poetic awareness, poet Ashraf Al-Garqani, to write his hymn in a language that dissolves from sacred books, myth narratives, and neglected manuscripts in ancient libraries and basements where light does not enter. Language, scenes, and projections attempt to repair the critical moment with a writing that grants itself its own style—bold, free from excess words and chatter. Ashraf writes: "I am a clumsy, talkative house. And my father is a cursed stone god. His profession is silence. And his music is the accumulation within himself. His divine colleagues threw him to the ground because he did not participate, even with a letter, in their books..." But his son was the one who had the privilege of writing this hymn. A hymn in which humanity triumphs over gods, as Christ says in the Gospel in response to those who condemned him for helping the oppressed on Saturday: "The Son of Man is Lord of the Saturday." This, then, is the hymn of the Son of Man.